Ask HN: Data Restrictions When Building

Building a product right now but the data I need to make it as good as possible is protected. Specifically, I want to access all reviews from a restaurant review website (Google Reviews, Yelp, etc) but the apis for google and yelp only limit me to 5 and 3 reviews per restaurant respectively. Apparently scraping those reviews is illegal, what do I do? Should I build out a PoC and then negotiate a data partnership? Has anyone run into a similar issue? Would greatly appreciate any advice!

Seriously wish these guys just played nice and made data public, people can make such cool things with it. I get someone could make a better yelp with that data and compete, but that’s because a better yelp exists, right?